We kicked off a three-week series designed to help students think about what's most important as they head back to school. All of our games were themed around school, we decorated the stage with lockers and school banners and we showed old 'Saved By The Bell' videos as students mingled around. We actually broke our all time attendance record which caught us off guard, and as a result we ran out of our hand-outs and our 'take aways' that we are making available during this series. As usual, a big crowd translates into a TON of energy...some good and some bad!

4 comments:

Andy Jack
said...

Hey Kurt,I love your weekend wrap ups! Not only because I appreciate the inside scoop on your programming and evaluation, but I love it that you admit your failures and learn from them. I have decided to do the same self-evaluation for our ministry this school year. I'd like to know how you "measure" yourself in the various areas (fun factor, student response). Maybe you can post on your standards!?!?

Andy...most of the categories on the weekend wrap up are pretty subjective, kinda 'gut', evaluations. For attendance, I simply match up attendance based on our weeekly average for the year to date. For volunteer involvement I combine our volunteer attendance with how 'involved' in the program they were (sitting with kids, interacting, helping run program etc.)

Things like fun factor, student response, music etc. are all just based on how I feel things went.